The former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko admitted to organizing a special operation, as a result of which in Minsk, 33 Russians were detained. He stated this on the air of Channel Five.
He noted that he authorized this operation back in 2018. Its purpose was “to lure to Ukraine and to judge those who were involved in the crash of the MH17 plane.” However, Poroshenko lamented, “the special operation to detain the Wagnerites, unfortunately, was thwarted by specific individuals.”
September 10, the former head of the office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Bogdan called the story of the detention of fighters of the Russian private military company (PMC) Wagner in Belarus “a thwarted operation of the Ukrainian special services “. According to him, the failure occurred due to information leakage from a person in the immediate environment Vladimir Zelensky .
At the same time, he revealed that the main intelligence department participated in the development of the operation Ministry of Defense a > together with representatives of the United States. They created a company in Venezuela that was supposed to hire Wagnerians, and Ukraine would be a transit point for their route.
On July 29, 33 Russians from Wagner’s private military company were detained in Belarus on suspicion of preparing riots. Some of the detainees were citizens of Ukraine and fought in the Donbass. Kiev requested their extradition, but the Wagnerites were returned to Russia.